The First Tweet of 30 Celebrities

By Brad Thompson on September 24, 2009
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Twitter has emerged from a simple SMS service to the world’s most popular micro-blogging platform with millions of users. Its exponential growth in early 2009 was all thanks to the presence of celebrities who embrace the website. If you take a good look at Twitterholic’s Top 100 Twitter Users, you would notice that celebrities are dominating the rankings, which are based on number of followers. The rise of number of celebrities, be it athletes, politicians, actors, actresses or singers, boosted Twitter’s traffic tremendously, especially after Oprah Winfrey posted her first tweet.

Today, I would like to share with you guys this list of ‘The First Tweet of 30 Celebrities’. Enjoy!


Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk)


Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow)


Britney Spears (@britneyspears)


Kim Kardashian (@KimKardashian)


Ryan Seacrest (@RyanSeacrest)


John Mayer (@johncmayer)


Shaquille O’Neal (@THE_REAL_SHAQ)


Oprah Winfrey (@Oprah)


Barack Obama (@BarackObama)


Demi Moore (@mrskutcher)


Jimmy Fallon (@jimmyfallon)


Miley Cyrus (@mileycyrus)


Sean “P. Diddy” Combs (@iamdiddy)


Lance Armstrong (@lancearmstrong)


Ashley Tisdale (@ashleytisdale)


Mandy Moore (@TheMandyMoore)


50cent (@50cent)


Mariah Carey (@MariahCarey)


Al Gore (@algore)


Tony Hawk (@tonyhawk)


Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em (@souljaboytellem)


Pete Wentz (@petewentz)


Perez Hilton (@PerezHilton)


Lily Allen (@lilyroseallen)


Hammer (@MCHammer)


Dr. Drew (@drdrew)


Martha Stewart (@MarthaStewart)


Sara Bareilles (@SaraBareilles)


RainnWilson (@rainnwilson)


Brooke Burke (@brookeburke)

About the Author
Brad is a 15-Year-Old student living in the United States. His areas of interest include IT, web design, computer repairs, and music composing. In the web design field, he is the web designer of my school’s film festival website, as well as his own site GigaBlog.
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23 Comments
  1. Stef says:
    Posted September 24, 2009 at 9:28 AM

    Ha! Tony Hawk! And those other tweets were just perfect!

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  2. Rares Matei says:
    Posted September 24, 2009 at 12:53 PM

    why did you write britney spears twice? Fun article, it's interesting to see the current's most followed twitter user first tweet :) when he had like 0 followers

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  3. Xavier Lur says:
    Posted September 25, 2009 at 3:59 AM

    Thanks for the tip!

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  4. Perri Gorman says:
    Posted October 24, 2009 at 1:48 PM

    Great to see celebs figuring it out just like the rest of us….I love that MC Hammer is on Twitter! :)

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  5. -.- says:
    Posted November 4, 2009 at 11:59 AM

    YOU FORGOT ABOUT DEMI LOVATO -.-

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  6. johnrossharvey says:
    Posted November 4, 2009 at 1:10 PM

    All this comment box does is erase my comments!

    Reply
  7. replayray says:
    Posted November 4, 2009 at 1:17 PM

    really fun article! how about a Part 2?

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  8. Lasties says:
    Posted November 6, 2009 at 12:55 PM

    How could you not include, Danny Devito's First Tweet, Classic: http://twitter.com/Danny_DeVito/status/3785365466

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  9. davereinhardt says:
    Posted November 6, 2009 at 12:55 PM

    Obama was first! April 2007. Good thing your President is ahead of the curve, that's the way it should be. Would've been interesting to put these in chronological order and try and understand how the momentum grew.

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  10. Stephen Ou says:
    Posted December 12, 2009 at 1:07 PM

    My first tweet is Hello World :)

    http://twitter.com/stephenou/status/5912830354

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  11. Stephen Ou says:
    Posted December 12, 2009 at 6:07 PM

    My first tweet is Hello World :)

    http://twitter.com/stephenou/status/5912830354

    Reply
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